Sony announced it has created a cassette tape that smashes a previous record for data storage. The Japanese company says its new tape is capable of holding 185 terabytes, or 148 gigabits per ...

Not until the Sony Walkman came along. The first of Sony’s iconic portable cassette tape players went on sale on this day, July 1st, back in 1979 for $150. As the story goes, Sony co-founder ...

The resulting device so pleased Ibuka after he tried it on a business trip that he went to then-Sony chairman Akio Morita, saying “Try this. Don’t you think a stereo cassette player that you ...

The growing popularity of digital downloads has sealed the fate of Sony’s iconic cassette Walkman, with the Japanese company announcing that it will cease production of the device. The cassette ...

Sony introduced it in 1979, and it lasted without interruption until 2010. Although the company has occasionally released new models since then, they aren’t targeting the masses like the halcyon days ...

First it was vinyl, and now it’s cassettes that all the cool kids want, as nostalgia takes over the music world. It seems both those brought up with endless streaming options and those of a ...

The people behind the 185TB tape aren't creating the technology necessary for its existence so they can make the world's longest mix-tape. Instead it's far closer to a proof-of-concept than it is ...

Over the past decade, Sony has released Walkman-branded headphones, MP3 players and phones. The original TPS-L2 Walkman debuted on July 1, 1979. The portable cassette player revolutionized how ...

It's been over 20 years since Sony released a cassette player, and cassette sales are so minuscule they barely show up on ...

Witness the remarkable restoration of a classic Sony stereo radio cassette boombox, a nostalgic piece of audio history, as it’s brought back to life. This video follows the entire transformation ...

The dimensions of We Are Rewind’s Bluetooth cassette player are roughly the same as Sony’s first-ever Walkman from 1979 — but by the time the cassette Walkman ended its initial run in the ...